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Changing up the color of your new Moto G is cheap and done in a snap
Due to cost constraints the Moto G doesn't get the full Moto Maker treatment like the Moto X, but the new version still has the ability to swap out the outer casing for a new one. Motorola is again offering its "Shell" system on the new Moto G, letting you replace the entire back cover with a new one.
Although it's gotten...

Things didn't change much in the last year, but they improved enough to keep the Moto G a go-to inexpensive choice
Since Motorola was purchased by Google the Moto X has been the headline grabber for the company. But in the background, it's the lower-end Moto G
that has been pushing Motorola back into relevance in several countries around the world. India and Brazil, in particular, have been...

This isn't something you usually brag about — LG has announced it now has the Guinness World Record for the largest billboard advertisement ever made. The advertisement, which is right outside the Riyadh International Airport in Saudi Arabia, is two football fields long and stretches along a road leading into the airport. LG says it expects a good number of the 20 million people who visit the...

Long-time Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has announced he will step down from his post, effective immediately, to be replaced by two new CEOs. Mark Hurd (formerly of HP) and Safra Catz will both take over as CEO concurrently, though Oracle isn't handing out the "co-CEO" title to either of them. Though he's one of the richest people in the world, Ellison isn't leaving the company — he plans to stay on...

Samsung's metal-clad Galaxy Alpha may not have an official release date in the U.S., but popular device importer Expansys will be happy to sell you one for a cool $699. That price is quite high, but shouldn't shock anyone who's bought a brand new device from an importer before. The over $700 after shipping you'll pay is getting you a global unlocked model with 32GB of storage, a nice metal...

Accessibility features may not be important to the vast majority of users out there, but for those who need them, these tweaks deep in the settings can be a make-or-break features for whether a new Android phone will work for them on a daily basis. It's the inclusion of accessibility settings in these phones that allows Android to have such an amazing reach, and we want to highlight where they...

Whether they're fun, serious or somewhere in between, we see plenty of statues around. They often take painstaking amounts of time and effort to create, and can take on a variety of different styles and shapes. We want to see the best shots you can take of a statue of any kind, big or small, this week.
We're going to select two winners again this week, with each winning a just-announced...

The photo contests are back on a regular schedule, and we're glad that things are back to normal. We just closed the most recent photo contest, "treats," last night and got to take a look at dozens of great entries this afternoon. Unfortunately we could only pick two this week, but rest assured there are even more photo contests ready to go in the coming weeks. Read along and see this week's...

Tablet pre-orders will ship in the U.S. and Europe on Sept. 30
Today's the day you can plop down a chunk of your local currency to pre-order the NVIDIA Shield Tablet with an LTE connection and 32GB of storage. The pre-order price for this higher-end model of the Shield Tablet comes in at $399 here in the U.S., and gets you the exact same Shield Tablet but with double the internal storage and...

If you want to use your Google Voice number for every call, keep the app installed for now
The times, they are a-changin'. Google Voice is slowly but surely being absorbed into Hangouts, and you can do basically everything you used to do in the Google Voice app inside Hangouts now instead. I say "basically" because there's one important function the Google Voice app still offers that Hangouts...

The contests keep moving along here at Android Central, and we're ready to get back to it with our Weekly Photo Contest. After taking a brief hiatus, this week's contest is back and we're hoping that you folks didn't skip a beat with your photo taking skills. The prompt this week to which you'll be taking your pictures is "treats," and we're sure we'll see our fair share of delicious and...

LG was there from the beginning of Android Wear with its original G Watch as a launch device for the platform, but now it already has a second smartwatch — the G Watch R — to show off. We've had the opportunity to completely review the original G Watch and have a great hands-on with the G Watch R, but how do they look right next to each other? We're going to show you.

Sony did it first with its QX series of "lens cameras," and now Kodak is getting in on the smartphone lens attachment game with its Pixpro Smart Lenses. The SL10 and SL25 are 16MP fully-contained cameras that clip snugly onto your phone of choice and provide drastically improved image quality over what you'd get from a phone.

Google making a splash with Nexus branding at Super Mobility Week? Well, a quick glance at the above photo and you might have thought that. Instead, it turns out this company Nexius is walking that line of brand confusion quite nicely. And it also wants to "Transform your business ... through wireless" apparently.

Quick power at the ready, with a few neat features, but it isn't cheap
Motorola has been expanding its accessory portfolio quite steadily since the release of the original Moto X. With cases, headphones, chargers and speakers, Motorola is hoping to capitalize on the lucrative accessory market and its well-known brand that encourages folks pick up an extra couple of things when checking out at...

You may have noticed that Wednesday came and went this week without the announcement of the weekly photo contest winners. You'll have to forgive us for getting caught up in the crazy storm of news from Samsung, LG, Motorola, Sony, ASUS and more the last week. We're here to announce the winners of this week's contest either way, and just because we waited two extra days doesn't mean the winners...

Motorola has just unveiled the new Moto X, and one of the first things people are going to want to know is if the camera has improved over the original. With an increased resolution of 13MP, an interesting dual-LED ring flash and some small new software features, things are sounding good — but how do they look?

Motorola's late summer product refresh in upon us. With a flurry of announcements today the company has refreshed its Moto X and Moto G, while at the same time announcing availability of the much-anticipated Moto 360 and a new accessory in the Moto Hint.
The long-awaited new Moto X is finally here. It bumps the screen up to 5.2-inches, adds an aluminum frame and gives you the option of having...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it
Motorola released the original Moto G back in November 2013 as a mid-range counterpart to the Moto X in an effort to round out its device portfolio. It was clear that the Moto G provided an excellent value at just $179 unlocked — a real go-to phone for any value-minded smartphone buyer around the world, particularly internationally.
Just over three months later...

Can't get enough of the Note Edge? Here's every single picture we have of it
We all expected to see a Galaxy Note 4 unveiled at Samsung's September press event, but what we didn't expect is the Note Edge. With a crazy curved display that shows secondary information and helps you multitask, it's quite an interesting device to see. Just in case you wanted to see even more of the Note Edge, we've...

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